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Graduate Estimating radiative cooling in high-temperature rocket exhausts
- pervect
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Graduate How do we know that the expansion of the universe is radially symmetric?
- ptabor
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Graduate How do metaphysics theories explain the expanding universe?
- hejs
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Graduate The Issue of the Beginning (new paper by Ashtekar)
- marcus
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Undergrad Possible Explanations To Fermi's Paradox?
- Gold Barz
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Graduate ASCL.net - Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Astronuc
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Graduate Diagramming the observable universe with tangent circles
- Hulse
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Graduate Why do $\Lambda$CDM and Milne cosmologies predict the same universe age?
- Garth
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Graduate Escape velocity of a body from a black hole.
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Is the universe a 3D manifold living in 4D space?
- pivoxa15
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Undergrad Did ancient Greek myths encode knowledge of the Big Bang?
- Euric
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Graduate Is Venus retrograde or upside down, and what does the 178° tilt mean?
- DaveC426913
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High School Is Alpha Centauri, the closes star to the solar system?
- the Physic freak
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High School Why does Earth rotate counterclockwise when viewed from above the North Pole?
- Raza
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High School Is the Universe Really Spherical? And What Lies Beyond?
- Delzac
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Graduate 'Cyclic universe' can explain cosmological constant
- scott1
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Graduate Are Trojans possible for other planets besides Jupiter?
- Nereid
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Graduate Finding Water on the Moon: A Proposal for an Experiment
- CosmologyHobbyist
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High School What are Some Beginner-Friendly Books on Cosmology and General Relativity?
- Ludovico
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Undergrad How do they measure the CMB temperature?
- touqra
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Undergrad Could life exist if atomic stability were slightly different?
- Dook
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Stargazing What Can You Capture in the Night Sky with Jupiter, Saturn, and Comet Photos?
- russ_watters
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Graduate Why is my paper very difficult to be published?
- yuwingsin
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Graduate Infinitely small and infinitely large
- dak246
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- Poll
Undergrad Is a Manned Mission to Mars Beneficial for Scientific Advancement?
- wolram
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Graduate What is the current understanding of the origin of the universe?
- hurk4
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Graduate Can We Understand Axis Tilts in Planetary Systems?
- marcus
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Graduate What heated the early universe to 1000 trillion degrees?
- batboy
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Graduate Radiation, propulsion and timescales for human Mars missions
- wolram
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Graduate Radio Waves emitted by Black Holes
- DeepThunker
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Graduate Alternative theories about the origin of the universe
- Philippe
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Undergrad Gravitational slingshotting
- DaveC426913
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High School Would you see thousands of ships in trans-lunar orbit from Earth?
- MonstersFromTheId
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Graduate Is the Hubble Constant Constant?
- kmarinas86
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Graduate Do solar neutrinos really change flavor?
- Michael Mozina
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Graduate Some questions regarding WIMPs as a DM candidate
- frazzle
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Graduate Acceleration due to the solar wind
- ptabor
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Graduate Does time dilation change the universe's age for fast-moving particles?
- cephied
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Undergrad Why do most planets orbit in roughly the same plane?
- scott_alexsk
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Graduate How does repulsive gravity affect spacetime geometry?
- flotsam
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Stargazing Where should I start with astrophotography equipment?
- Life|Time
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Graduate Is a Methane-Molecule-Like Solar System Stable?
- neutrino
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Strike deathray from list of concerns?
- Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Why does a star's gravitational force increase when it becomes a black hole?
- jasc15
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Undergrad Relation Between Areas of Astronomy
- Michael Mozina
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Graduate Accelerating expansion and the Cosmological Constant
- Royce
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Graduate Congratulations to Christine on the new paper
- marcus
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Graduate Could a 150-year comet have perihelion between Mercury and Venus?
- DaveC426913
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Undergrad Are we going in a particular direction?
- Silverbackman
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Undergrad Drake equeation and planet finding
- DaveC426913
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Undergrad Is the amount of matter in the universe infinite?
- kmbop53
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Graduate Can the gas model theory explain recent satellite observations?
- Michael Mozina
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Undergrad Someone want to have fun with asteroid simulation?
- DaveC426913
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Graduate Driving past your opponent in a space race
- cliowa
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Graduate Time after big bang we can observe, uncertainty principle
- Finestructure
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Graduate What if matter were holes in a solid vacuum?
- wolram
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High School What causes the northern lights?
- gem0688
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Undergrad Is Our Sun Part of a Binary Star System?
- ptabor
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High School Our universe should be called multiverse and not universe
- whiteholes
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Graduate Can the cyclic universe work with loop quantum gravity instead of string theory?
- MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Why does the universe look black?
- QuantumTheory
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Graduate How Do Aliens and Astronomers Measure Time Differently in the Galaxy Paradox?
- japam
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Graduate Knowing the environment and the creation of the universe
- heartless
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Undergrad Proving Pluto's Orbit Inside Neptune's - Maths Investigation
- man_united_number_1
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Graduate Could a Wormhole and Black Holes be Used to Reverse the Big Bang?
- tribdog
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Graduate Is the Universe a 3D Surface of a 4D Hypersphere?
- Sheyr
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Graduate Neutrinos, can you explain them to me?
- Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Occam's Razor and WMAP Anomalies
- wolram
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Graduate How Do Scientists Measure the Universe's Expansion Rate?
- salhuneidi
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Graduate Calculating apparent positions of sun and moon
- jamadagni
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What planets were ancient people able to see in the sky without telescopes?
- scott1
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Undergrad What distinguishes Pre-main-sequence stars from main sequence stars?
- envanyatar
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Undergrad Why did matter dominate over antimatter after the big bang?
- wolram
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High School Sun's Position in Our Solar System
- wolram
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Graduate Do Celestial Objects Compete for Matter?
- WarrenPlatts
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Undergrad Distance between earth and moon increasing
- mubashirmansoor
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Did anyone in the UK see a three-lobed halo around the moon last night?
- wolram
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Stargazing Do astronomers at the 3,000 dollar level become degenerates
- batboy
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High School What Is the Center in Sloan Digital Sky Survey?
- batboy
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Undergrad Temp of a Comm Satellite in Orbit Around Earth
- MonstersFromTheId
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Undergrad Why do stars exhibit red shift and blue shift in our universe?
- shaan_aragorn
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Graduate Tried to understand how we/ our universe came to be
- wolram
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Graduate Quasar variability timescales don't show expected time dilation
- Chronos
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High School Sun's Companion Star: Nemesis Theory
- scott1
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Graduate What is the logical setup that determines the epoch of the CMB?
- kmarinas86
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Graduate What Are Rosswog's Ideas on the GRB Mechanism?
- marcus
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Graduate Could all supermassive objects in the center of galaxies be SGR's post mortem?
- kmarinas86
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Undergrad How do astronomers measure the angle for calculating a parsec?
- Semaphia
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Graduate Why Does a(tau) Not Equal af in This Orbital Migration Equation?
- tony873004
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Graduate How Does Quantum Mechanics Explain the Beginning of the Universe?
- adrian116
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Graduate The Great Attractor - What Do We Know?
- Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Is the "chaos cloud" article from 2005 a hoax?
- Geographer
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Undergrad Evolving Earth: Solar System Environment Over Time
- wolram
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High School How many places in the solar system have liquid water?
- dimensionless
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Undergrad Are white holes real or just theoretical?
- ThomasFuhlery
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Graduate The cycle of life? Fractal orbits and spin.
- Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Is There a Preferred Lorentz Frame in the CMB?
- DavidK
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Graduate Debate with my coworker regarding the inflationary theory
- Pavel
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Graduate Dark Energy's effect on the curvature of space time
- kmarinas86
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Undergrad Neutron star: heaviest teaspoon of matter
- Vincent Vega
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